Otto von Brandenstein

Otto von Brandenstein (21 October 1865-8 May 1945) was a Major-General of the Imperial German Army during World War I and the Finnish Civil War.

Biography
Otto von Brandenstein was born in Prussia, German Empire in 1865, and he entered the Prussian Army in 1885. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913, and he served as a staff officer on the Western Front of World War I. In 1918, he took command of his own cavalry brigade that was sent to Finland during the Finnish Civil War, fighting alongside White Finland. He retired in February 1919 after the Treaty of Versailles ended Germany's participation in the Russian Civil War, and he was killed by Soviet Red Army troops in 1945.